Adam Fork, Heaven's Kiss

inkography, Canson Infinity Edition paper, 79x78 cm, unframed

Size of the painting itself: 69.0 x 70.0 cm
No. 8/20
Artist's Certificate included.
For the winner of the auction additionally an Artist Calendar for 2025 (A2 format) with paintings by Jaroslaw Jasnikowski "Spaces of Surrealism "

About the Artist:
Adam Fork - Master of Pastels - was born in 1961 in Bedzin. His work is associated with magic realism, hyperrealism, surrealism or fantasy painting. The artist's works can also be included in the trend of metaphorical painting, due to the introduction of distinctive motifs to his portraits, which are an inherent feature of his style, often being an ironic element against the background of the statuesque beauty of his models.

The artist uses an original color technique that blurs the lines in favor of soft lights penetrating the stain. The common denominator of his works is idealized women, and the introduction of illusory and allusive metaphors is emphasized by the titles of the paintings. Another characteristic feature of his work is the creation of three-dimensional elements in the form of paper rips, folds or kinks in the paper. About this artistic procedure Adam Fork said this:
"I love being an illusionist who surprises the viewer with the three-dimensional effects of my pastels. In almost every one of my works there are characteristic rips, folds and kinks in the paper. I rejoice like a child when the viewer lets himself be caught trying to straighten, sometimes even through the glass, the bent cardboard."
For some time now, these tears and folds of paper have been partially replaced by three-dimensional details of artistic jewelry by Dorota Mielcarek-Widełka, a Konin-based stained glass artist and author of artistic jewelry, privately Adam's wife. Together they form the duo DADAM, complementing each other wonderfully both in private life and in the artistic arena.

Adam Widełka creates his pastels on chipboard or specially prepared cardboard. His own technique of special priming of these boards and cardboards guarantees the durability of his works for hundreds of years, his pastels stored indoors will not lose their color properties and will please the eye of future generations of recipients of Adam Fork's art.

The artist also does pastel painting on interior and exterior plaster. Exterior paintings are created on fiber cement boards using a unique in-house technique based on the Keim technique, which is resistant to weather conditions. He fixes silicate chalk drawings with potassium water glass on cement boards. In this field he is the only specialist in Poland.